Careers at Stripe

Who we are About Stripe Stripe, LLC. is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies - from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups - use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career. What you’ll do Responsibilities Develop global architecture by combining less-available components and data centers into a highly available and resilient whole. Work on latency-critical, time-sensitive and data redundancy solutions. Solve broad range of problems, including investigating Mongo write concerns, minimizing cross-region TLS handshakes, and develop new systems to automate disaster detection and failovers. Enable the company to increase the GDP of the internet by providing uptime and data protection. Write code, scope, design, implement, and deploy solutions using multiple technologies, including: Ruby, Java, Mongo, Postgres, and other necessary tools as required. Investigate issues in live, distributed production systems. Collaborate across the company to provide an understanding of multi-region architectures, high durability implementation patterns, and best practices. Learn, meet, and uphold high engineering standards through design and code review. Who you are Minimum requirements Must have a Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, or a related field, plus five (5) years of post-bachelor’s progressive software development work experience. In the alternative, the employer is willing to accept a Master’s Degree or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science, or a related field, plus three (3) years of software development work experience. Must also have three (3) years of experience in each of the following: Go, Ruby, or Java programming languages; Database internals including data movement, leader election, and quorums; Cloud infrastructure services, including: S3, EBS, EC2, and VPCs, to deploy scalable applications; Designing and building Temporal workflows; Using Trino SQL for data analysis and visualization; and Designing fault-tolerant systems using data sharding and replication strategies. Salary: $206,086 - $285,600/yr. This salary range represents the base salary range for the role and any sales commissions/sales bonuses targets, if applicable, would be in addition to the base salary. 40 hrs/week 50% Telecommuting permitted. Multiple Positions Available. Additional benefits for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; 401(k) plan; medical, dental, and vision benefits; and wellness stipends. WA70 #LI-DNI

Who we are About Stripe Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone’s reach while doing the most important work of your career. About the team Link is a digital wallet designed for fast and secure online payments. It allows consumers to save and use their preferred payment methods across the Link network, helping them check out quickly and securely wherever Link is accepted. The Link Fraud and Auth team works to make Link the most trusted and highest-performing way to pay. We protect consumers and merchants from fraud, abuse, and financial loss while maximizing authorization rates for good users. Our work spans consumer-facing experiences, payment infrastructure, and ML powered risk systems. We manage fraud and financial risk across a growing range of novel Link features, including Link’s agentic wallet, stored balance, and LPMs. The team also owns Instant Bank Payments, a proprietary payment method built on ACH rails, offering merchants immediate confirmation while protecting them from bank-initiated returns. IBP is the heart of Link’s revenue engine, giving LFA engineers the opportunity to shape and scale one of Link’s most important products. What you’ll do As a machine learning engineer on Link Fraud and Auth, you’ll build and operate models and risk decisioning systems that protect Link while helping more legitimate payments succeed. You’ll work across the full machine learning lifecycle, from analyzing fraud patterns and identifying opportunities to building, deploying, monitoring, and improving models in production. You’ll use data to form hypotheses, make practical modeling choices, and define technical direction in partnership with Engineering, Product, and Data Science. Your work will directly influence Link’s fraud performance, authorization rates, and ability to expand into new products and payment experiences. Responsibilities Build, train, evaluate, deploy, and own machine learning models that detect fraud and abuse across Link. Use large-scale datasets to investigate emerging threats, develop hypotheses, and identify opportunities to improve payment performance. Develop pragmatic machine learning solutions, including tree-based models and other approaches suited to real-time risk decisioning. Design data pipelines, features, evaluation methods, experiments, and monitoring systems that support reliable production models. Build and improve risk decisioning systems that integrate with other parts of Stripe’s payments stack. Own ambiguous problems from initial analysis and problem definition through technical design, implementation, launch, measurement, and iteration. Collaborate with Engineering, Product, Data Science, and Risk partners across Stripe to turn model improvements into durable product outcomes. Who you are We’re looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement. Minimum requirements 6+ years of industry experience building and shipping machine learning models in production. Strong programming skills in Python and experience with common data and machine learning tools, such as SQL, Spark, and XGBoost. Strong knowledge of production machine learning systems, including data pipelines, feature development, model evaluation, deployment, monitoring, and iteration. Experience working with large and complex datasets and applying data analysis, statistics, and experimentation fundamentals. Demonstrated ability to take an open-ended business problem, determine where machine learning can help, and own the solution through production. Strong judgment in selecting practical modeling approaches and evaluating tradeoffs among model performance, system complexity, latency, and business impact. Strong collaboration skills and the ability to work across teams and contribute to peers' success. Preferred qualifications Experience applying machine learning to fraud detection, risk modeling, payment authorization, identity, account security, or another adversarial domain. Experience building real-time, low-latency machine learning or risk decisioning systems at scale. Experience integrating models into production services and designing reliable systems around model outputs. Experience with payments, fintech, digital wallets, or money movement. Strong software engineering skills and experience designing solutions across the machine learning and product stack.

Who we are About Stripe Stripe, LLC. is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies - from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups - use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career. What you’ll do Responsibilities Build, develop, test, and deploy software infrastructure; Modify existing software to correct errors or to improve its performance; Develop and direct software system testing and validation procedures, programming, and documentation; Build, test, and maintain software development for the company’s various codebases to integrate with external financial partners; Consult and advise other peers on build system choices; Analyze user needs and software requirements to determine the feasibility of design within time and cost constraints; Work with engineers across the company to build new features at large-scale; Implement unit, functional, and integration tests to prevent bugs and regressions; Set the mission and perform short and medium term planning and prioritization for an engineering team; Build, test, and maintain software for card payments integrations across the company’s codebases to communicate with external card networks and payment processors using industry-standard protocols; Consult with and advise peers on integration architecture and payment processing implementation choices; and Analyze user needs and payment processing requirements to determine the feasibility of design within time and cost constraints for card network integrations Who you are Minimum requirements Must have a Bachelor's Degree or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science, or a related field, plus two (2) years of experience in Software Development. Must also have two (2) years of experience in each of the following: Writing and debugging computer code; Writing software to issue and serve HTTP requests; Java, Ruby, Scala, or Python; and API, REST, Soap, Agile, Jira, GIT, AngularJS, or NodeJS. Must also have one (1) year of experience in each of the following: Payment processing in payins acquiring financial systems related to authorization and clearing flows with major global card networks including Visa and Mastercard; Data modeling of card features in acquiring payments for financial processing systems; Working with ISO 8583 messages, and data warehouse queries; and Cloud. Salary: $156,800 - $235,200/yr. This salary range represents the base salary range for the role and any sales commissions/sales bonuses targets, if applicable, would be in addition to the base salary. 40 hrs/week 50% Telecommuting permitted. Multiple Positions Available. Additional benefits for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; 401(k) plan; medical, dental, and vision benefits; and wellness stipends. WA71 #LI-DNI

Who we are About Stripe Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone’s reach while doing the most important work of your career. About the team The Data Product Experiences (DPE) team is dedicated to making Stripe's merchant-facing data products intuitive, delightful, and actionable. We build client-side rendering engines, high-performance charting libraries, and interactive visualization interfaces that handle high-throughput streaming telemetry and real-time merchant analytics. What you’ll do In this role, you will architect and build high-performance client-side data rendering engines from scratch to visualize tens of thousands of data points smoothly. You will collaborate closely with Designers, Product Managers, and Front-End Systems Engineers to define cutting-edge data visualization paradigms that reduce cognitive load and prevent visual fatigue for Stripe's users. Responsibilities Partner with designers and product managers to prototype, build, and ship interactive analytics dashboards and data visualization tools across the Stripe Dashboard. Contribute to Stripe’s core design system by developing scalable, reusable visualization components and charting standards for engineering teams. Design frontend integration strategies and robust API contracts to enable seamless adoption of analytics components by partner teams. Provide technical leadership and mentorship through code reviews, pairing, and fostering frontend engineering best practices. Collaborate across Product, Design, Data Infrastructure, and Analytics teams to deliver high-quality, data-driven user experiences. Optimize rendering performance and state management for web applications handling large datasets, real-time telemetry, and high-density visual components. Who you are We’re looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement. Minimum requirements 2+ years of relevant web front-end development or creative technology experience in a tech-forward, product-driven company. Advanced experience with React, modern TypeScript/JavaScript, HTML5, CSS/Sass, and modern web application architecture. Demonstrated experience building interactive web charts and visualizations using tools and libraries such as D3.js, Recharts, SVG, Canvas, or WebGL, with a focus on data density and visual-perceptual hierarchy. Proven track record of writing clear, elegant, well-tested code in a collaborative team environment. Deep experience designing and developing web applications that function seamlessly across modern browsers, screen dimensions, and devices. Strong communication skills with the ability to work effectively alongside technical and non-technical stakeholders alike. Preferred qualifications Passion for crafting beautiful data experiences on the web, demonstrated through a design portfolio or frontend codebase showcasing interactive dashboards, custom charting engines, creative tools, or design systems. Exemplary understanding of formal design principles including typography, layout, color theory, data density balance, and visual proportion beyond basic web UI. Experience building sophisticated interactive tools encompassing complex client-side state management, caching, and real-time data fetching strategies. Advanced proficiency with React, with an emphasis on fluid interactions, subtle animations, visual refinement, and web rendering performance. Experience with accessibility (a11y) standards for interactive charts and graphs, A/B testing frameworks, synthetic monitoring, and performance profiling tools.

Who we are About Stripe Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone’s reach while doing the most important work of your career. About the team The Data Product Experiences (DPE) team is dedicated to making Stripe's merchant-facing data products intuitive, delightful, and actionable. We build client-side rendering engines, high-performance charting libraries, and interactive visualization interfaces that handle high-throughput streaming telemetry and real-time merchant analytics. What you’ll do In this role, you will architect and build high-performance client-side data rendering engines from scratch to visualize tens of thousands of data points smoothly. You will collaborate closely with Designers, Product Managers, and Front-End Systems Engineers to define cutting-edge data visualization paradigms that reduce cognitive load and prevent visual fatigue for Stripe's users. Responsibilities Partner with designers and product managers to prototype, build, and ship interactive analytics dashboards and data visualization tools across the Stripe Dashboard. Contribute to Stripe’s core design system by developing scalable, reusable visualization components and charting standards for engineering teams. Design frontend integration strategies and robust API contracts to enable seamless adoption of analytics components by partner teams. Provide technical leadership and mentorship through code reviews, pairing, and fostering frontend engineering best practices. Collaborate across Product, Design, Data Infrastructure, and Analytics teams to deliver high-quality, data-driven user experiences. Optimize rendering performance and state management for web applications handling large datasets, real-time telemetry, and high-density visual components. Who you are We’re looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement. Minimum requirements 2+ years of relevant web front-end development or creative technology experience in a tech-forward, product-driven company. Advanced experience with React, modern TypeScript/JavaScript, HTML5, CSS/Sass, and modern web application architecture. Demonstrated experience building interactive web charts and visualizations using tools and libraries such as D3.js, Recharts, SVG, Canvas, or WebGL, with a focus on data density and visual-perceptual hierarchy. Proven track record of writing clear, elegant, well-tested code in a collaborative team environment. Deep experience designing and developing web applications that function seamlessly across modern browsers, screen dimensions, and devices. Strong communication skills with the ability to work effectively alongside technical and non-technical stakeholders alike. Preferred qualifications Passion for crafting beautiful data experiences on the web, demonstrated through a design portfolio or frontend codebase showcasing interactive dashboards, custom charting engines, creative tools, or design systems. Exemplary understanding of formal design principles including typography, layout, color theory, data density balance, and visual proportion beyond basic web UI. Experience building sophisticated interactive tools encompassing complex client-side state management, caching, and real-time data fetching strategies. Advanced proficiency with React, with an emphasis on fluid interactions, subtle animations, visual refinement, and web rendering performance. Experience with accessibility (a11y) standards for interactive charts and graphs, A/B testing frameworks, synthetic monitoring, and performance profiling tools.

Who we are About Stripe Stripe, LLC. is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies - from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups - use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career. What you’ll do Responsibilities Design and build internal products used daily by engineering, product, and cross-functional teams across Stripe. Own end-to-end systems—spanning frontend, backend, data, and integrations—that remove bottlenecks and meaningfully increase product development velocity. Collaborate with partner teams to understand workflows, define requirements, and build tools that improve iteration speed, quality, and clarity in the product lifecycle. Who you are Minimum requirements Must have a Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Systems or a related field, plus five (5) years of post-bachelors progressive work experience in software development, or a related occupation. Must also have five (5) years of experience with/in each of the following: Designing, developing, testing, and maintaining full-stack or backend web applications; Programming language including Java, Go, Python, Ruby, TypeScript, or JavaScript; Building and consuming REST or gRPC APIs; Working with databases including PostgreSQL, mySQL, or NoSQL systems; Cloud environments including AWS, or GCP; Frontend frameworks including React, Vue or building product UIs; Owning large components or projects and driving alignment with cross-functional partners; and Debugging. Salary: $206,086 - $285,600/yr This salary range represents the base salary range for the role and any sales commissions/sales bonuses targets, if applicable, would be in addition to the base salary. 40 hrs/week 50% Telecommuting Permitted. Multiple Positions Available. Additional benefits for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; 401(k) plan; medical, dental, and vision benefits; and wellness stipends. WA49 #LI-DNI

Who we are About Stripe Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies - from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups - use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career. About the team Abuse Operations is the front-line incident response and remediation function handling active product abuse and fraud impacting Stripe and its merchants. This multi-disciplinary group, spanning Incident Managers, Investigators, Forward Deployed Security Engineers, and Data Scientists, neutralizes active attacks, gathers requirements for operational tooling, and leads incidents. The team works directly with impacted merchants to resolve incidents and policy abuse rapidly. Operating primarily across Eastern, Pacific and Western European time zones, these team members regularly coordinate with global stakeholders across the world. What you’ll do In this role, you will play a critical part in safeguarding our financial ecosystem through two main pillars: actively responding to live fraud and abuse incidents as a hands-on security engineer, and serving as a key bridge between incidents and merchants to help them remediate threats, improve security posture, and protect their accounts. Leveraging your technical depth in fraud, abuse, and security engineering, you will investigate high-risk accounts, perform post-incident analyses, gather operational requirements, and drive agentic response capabilities ensuring we neutralize threats with speed and precision while elevating Stripe's product integrity function. Responsibilities Respond to live fraud and abuse incidents as a Forward Deployed Security Engineer, investigating high-risk activity, neutralizing active attacks, and mitigating security risks across the ecosystem. Investigate, mitigate, and remediate urgent fraud incidents (e.g., ATO, card testing), utilizing FT3-mapped (Fraud Taxonomy 3.0) detection and signals enrichment to reduce uncertainty and accelerate response. As part of incidents, analyze high-risk accounts to identify fraudulent merchants, card testing, account takeovers, and other fraud vectors, classifying them using FT3 to standardize threat intelligence. Develop, document, and execute incident response strategies, runbooks, and capabilities to continuously improve fraud and abuse detection and prevention. Act as a dedicated technical bridge during and after incidents to work directly with impacted merchants and customers, helping them investigate root causes, remediate vulnerabilities, and secure their accounts. Serve as an operational and technical liaison for legal teams, policy partners, and threat intelligence communities. Build and nurture strong strategic relationships across external threat intelligence communities, peer working groups, and law enforcement agencies. Who you are We're looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement. Minimum requirements 10+ years of experience leading security or fraud incident response; B.S./M.S. in Computer Science or equivalent experience. Expert knowledge of Python and SQL, and familiarity with other programming languages Existing experience with log analysis (e.g. first or third party applications, system / data access, event logs), network security, digital forensics, and incident response investigations Proven ability to build automated response workflows, leverage threat intelligence, and make risk mitigation recommendations. Strong written and verbal communication skills with a track record of driving cross-functional alignment with minimal oversight. Previous work with law enforcement Engagement in threat intelligence sharing communities Preferred qualifications Broad expertise across fraud and abuse mitigation, risk management, product trust, and threat intelligence in a complex platform environment. An adversarial mindset, understanding the goals, behaviors, and TTPs of threat actors. Experience with engineering, data processing and analysis tools (e.g. Databricks, Trino, etc.) Familiarity with common open-source frameworks for big data processing and/or data science (PySpark, Pandas, Sci-kit Learn, etc.) Experience with tactical threat intelligence and/or hunting for sophisticated threat actors in an enterprise environment Ability to proactively challenge the status quo by leveraging data and taking a user-centric approach to address complex product integrity challenges. Speaker or participant in external conferences or similar industry engagements

Who we are About Stripe Stripe, LLC. is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies - from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups - use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career. What you’ll do Responsibilities Lead the technical design and architecture of major platform initiatives, author design documents and build consensus across engineering teams. Define technical roadmaps for complex, multi-quarter projects that span multiple teams. Make critical architectural decisions for company documentation infrastructure, balancing scalability, reliability, and developer experience. Evaluate and set direction for integrating emerging technologies, including AI/LLM capabilities, into company documentation platforms and authoring tools. Establish and evolve engineering standards, best practices and technical guidelines for the team and broader organization. Partner with engineering teams across the company to understand documentation needs and design integrated solutions. Design, build and maintain scalable, reliable and performant services and systems. Contribute high-quality code across the full stack and navigate codebases with different languages and tools. Debug and resolve complex production issues and improve system reliability. Take ownership of system health and incident response. Who you are Minimum requirements Must have a Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Engineering, or a related field, plus four (4) years of experience in Software Engineering. Must have four (4) years of experience in each of the following: - Working in a full stack environment with a focus on Ruby, Java, Typescript or Bazel; - Working as a technical lead for large projects; defining roadmaps for projects that span >6 months and across several teams; Must have two (2) years of experience in each of the following: - Authoring and reviewing technical design documents and driving architectural decisions for complex systems while collaborating with junior colleagues; - Building and scaling automated testing and validation frameworks; - Designing and implementing persistent data models using MongoDB; and - Implementing emerging technical standards for AI/LLMs. Salary: $190,400 - $285,600/yr This salary range represents the base salary range for the role and any sales commissions/sales bonuses targets, if applicable, would be in addition to the base salary. 40 hrs/week 50% Telecommuting permitted. Multiple Positions Available. Additional benefits for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; 401(k) plan; medical, dental, and vision benefits; and wellness stipends. NY59 #LI-DNI

Who we are About Stripe Stripe, LLC. is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies - from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups - use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career. What you’ll do Responsibilities Design, build, and maintain high-scale, distributed systems to work with the company. Work within a team to build the core networking solutions, which include load balancing, mTLS networking, fleet health & observability used by product teams to build and operate microservices supporting the company’s business. Build a great customer experience for internal company teams using Infra and play a key role in enabling the company’s Infra to power all of the company’s products globally and at scale. Scope, design, implement, and deploy robust solutions, making appropriate tradeoffs between reliability, throughput, latency, resiliency, engineering, velocity, and cost. Innovate, design, and implement software solutions that contribute towards improvement and resiliency, reliability, efficiency, and management at scale. Contribute to team strategy, roadmap, tooling, process, and culture. Set clear goals and provide regular feedback on team member performance. Who you are Minimum requirements Must have a Bachelor's Degree or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science, or a related field, plus five (5) years of post-bachelor's progressive work experience in software engineering. In the alternative, the employer is willing to accept a Master's Degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, or a related field, plus three (3) years of experience in Software Engineering. Must also have three (3) years of experience in the following: Software development including in Cloud systems, AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI; Creating technical architecture and design; Building an operating infrastructure and tools that empower developers; Developing software using Java and GO; Developing, maintaining and debugging distributed systems built with open source tools; Breaking down large, complex systems, identifying shortcomings and optimization opportunities, and making data drive cost performance tradeoffs to influence design decisions; and Utilizing systems and tools including: Kubernetes, EC2, Envoy, Linux, and Puppet. Salary: $221,187 – $285,600/yr. This salary range represents the base salary range for the role and any sales commissions/sales bonuses targets, if applicable, would be in addition to the base salary. 40 hrs/week 100% Telecommuting permitted. Multiple Positions Available. Additional benefits for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; 401(k) plan; medical, dental, and vision benefits; and wellness stipends. CA50 #LI-DNI

Who we are About Stripe Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone’s reach while doing the most important work of your career. About the team Abuse Control Engineering (ACE) is Stripe’s rapid-response technical defense and control incubator. When urgent abuse vectors emerge, ACE bridges the gap using real attacker telemetry to prototype, test, and deploy software safeguards before vulnerabilities can be exploited at scale. We partner closely with Fraud, Risk and Product Engineering to run rigorous experiments, balancing aggressive risk mitigation against legitimate user conversion. Operating as both a strike team and an incubator, ACE builds automated regression suites in partnership with Abuse Research to permanently block threat recurrence and seamlessly transfers mature controls to long-term product owners across Stripe. What you’ll do As an Abuse Control Engineer on the Abuse Control Engineering (ACE) team, you will design, prototype, and incubate technical defenses that safeguard Stripe’s financial ecosystem against complex, cross-cutting abuse vectors. Where emerging threat patterns identify Stripe product weaknesses, ACE steps in to rapidly build and experiment with technical safeguards. Driven by empirical evidence and Stripe’s FT3 (Fraud Taxonomy 3.0) framework, you will translate threat intelligence into hard technical control requirements (e.g., API rate-limiting, step-up challenges, parameter validation, pre-debit holds). You will carefully balance security and product velocity, running experiments to evaluate risk reduction against user conversion impact. Managing controls through a strict incubation lifecycle, you will build automated regression suites to prevent recurrence and partner with native product teams to hand off mature, long-term defenses. Responsibilities Rapid Control Prototyping: Design, prototype, and deploy technical controls across API, protocol, and product boundaries to immediately close high-impact abuse vectors. Evidence-Based Technical Requirements: Translate empirical attacker evidence and FT3 threat research Abuse Research, Fraud and Security into precise technical abuse requirements and control specifications. Control Co-Design: Collaborate closely with teams across Stripe to co-design resilient, secure controls across payment, onboarding, identity, and Connect surfaces. Risk Experimentation: Run rigorous experiments and A/B tests to measure risk reduction against legitimate user conversion impact, optimizing controls to minimize friction while neutralizing threats. Regression Testing: Build comprehensive regression testing suites and automated attack simulations with Abuse Research to ensure mitigated abuse vectors do not recur. Stakeholder Management: Execute ACE’s incubation model by defining handoff criteria, operational documentation, and target dates to transfer successful controls to product teams. Who you are We’re looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement. Minimum requirements 3+ years of experience in Security Engineering, Software Engineering, Application Security, or Anti-Abuse Engineering in a high-scale production environment. B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience. Strong software development background with expert proficiency in Python, Go, Java, or similar production languages, alongside expert SQL skills for analyzing system telemetry. Hands-on engineering experience building API-level safeguards, rate-limiting frameworks, authentication/authorization checks, or input validation controls. Demonstrated experience with automated testing frameworks, including writing unit, integration, and regression tests for critical backend software. Strong cross-functional collaboration and communication skills, with a track record of partnering across security, product, and platform teams to drive technical outcomes. Preferred qualifications Proven track record of designing and executing A/B tests, evaluating control efficacy, and balancing security safeguards against user conversion friction. Deep expertise in threat modeling, secure system architecture, and modern application security design principles. Familiarity with established threat frameworks (e.g., FT3, MITRE ATT&CK) and applying adversary kill chain analysis to build resilient defenses. Strong domain knowledge of financial fraud vectors, threat actor TTPs, and attacker infrastructure (e.g., Account Takeover, Card Testing, Credential Stuffing). Hands-on experience with large-scale data processing platforms (e.g., Databricks, Trino, PySpark) to monitor and measure control performance across distributed systems. Demonstrated capability in incubating software features, establishing clear operational handoff criteria, and seamlessly transitioning ownership to partner engineering teams.